El Ojo y la Navaja

The Foreign Resort

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John from Brisbane has added a photo to the pool:

Sunset yesterday, so peaceful on another day of world smashing hostilities in the Middle East that have the critical Strait of Hormuz opening and shutting like the automatic door on our local supermarket. At least the lone walker off Woody Point in South East Queensland is in peace for a while. Our lovely daughter took us for the ride to her favourite sunset photo spot.

After two years of failed attempts at relocation and sterilization, Colombia's government has decided it will euthanize 80 of the at least 169 "cocaine hippos" that were once owned by notorious drug trafficker Pablo Escobar.

"Without this action it is impossible to control them," said Colombia's environment minister Irene Vélez at a press conference on Monday. Citing estimates that the population could reach at least 500 individuals by 2030, "affecting our ecosystems and native species," she added that "it is our responsibility to take this action." [...]

In 2022 the government launched a sterilization program to slow reproduction of the hippos, which could number up to 200 individuals. At the same time, officials opened talks with seven countries and two international zoo and aquarium associations to relocate the animals. To date, no country has agreed to take even a single hippo, according to the Colombian government, which ultimately led its Ministry of Environment to opt for euthanasia.

Widespread sterilization is not a viable option because it is a "cumbersome, costly and dangerous procedure that progresses at a very slow pace," says Jorge Moreno Bernal, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of the North in Barranquilla, Colombia. A single sterilization requires cranes and puts human lives at risk, he says. "It is not like sterilizing a dog or a cat."

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WENEN (ANP/DPA/AFP) - In Oostenrijk zijn potjes babyvoeding van het merk HiPP vermengd met rattengif. Het gaat vermoedelijk om een afpersingspoging, meldt voedselwaakhond AGES.

Er is tot dusver zeker een potje "wortelen met aardappelen" gevonden waarin het gif zat. Een klant in het dorpje Schützen am Gebirge had het na waarschuwingen van de autoriteiten ontdekt en het potje ingeleverd, meldde de politie. Er was niets van gegeten.

HiPP had vrijdagavond al zijn volledige assortiment teruggeroepen uit SPAR-supermarkten in heel Oostenrijk. De fabrikant stelde vast dat er gerommeld was met de potjes en waarschuwde dat consumptie ervan levensbedreigend kan zijn.

AGES waarschuwt ouders een dokter te raadplegen als bij hun kinderen symptomen als bloeduitstortingen of bleekheid optreden nadat zij HiPP-babyvoeding hebben gegeten. Symptomen kunnen zich twee tot vijf dagen na inname voordoen. Met de juiste behandeling is de vergiftiging goed te behandelen, aldus het agentschap.

TEHERAN (ANP/AFP/DPA) - De marine van de Iraanse Revolutionaire Garde heeft zaterdag gewaarschuwd dat elk schip dat de Straat van Hormuz nadert als een doelwit wordt beschouwd. Iran kondigde eerder op zaterdag aan de belangrijke zeestraat weer te willen afsluiten.

"We waarschuwen dat geen enkel schip, van welke aard dan ook, zijn ankerplaats in de Perzische Golf of de Zee van Oman mag verlaten. Elke poging om de Straat van Hormuz te naderen zal worden beschouwd als samenwerking met de vijand, en het overtredende schip zal worden aangevallen", aldus de verklaring van de Garde.

Twee vrachtschepen die onder Indiase vlag varen, werden zaterdag beschoten. Eerder op de dag liet Iran wel nog een reeks tankschepen door, naar eigen zeggen "als gebaar van goede wil". Volgens het Duitse persbureau dpa zijn voor het eerst sinds de oorlog ook weer cruiseschepen door de Straat van Hormuz gevaren.

NOORDWIJK (ANP) - Naar schatting 1 miljoen mensen stonden zaterdag langs de route van het Bloemencorso van de Bollenstreek. De stoet van vijftien praalwagens en tientallen andere voertuigen startte zaterdagochtend in Noordwijk en kwam rond 22.00 uur aan op de finish in Haarlem.

Het Bloemencorso verliep zonder incidenten. "Niet normaal hoe druk het was. En gezellig ook", zegt een woordvoerder van het evenement. "Op sommige plaatsen in de Bollenstreek stond het publiek vijftien rijen dik. In de dorpen was het uiteraard druk, maar ook daarbuiten stonden veel mensen langs de route."

Volgens de zegsvrouw werkten ongeveer 1500 vrijwilligers mee aan de optocht. Een groot deel daarvan werkte de afgelopen dagen aan het bekleden van de wagens met verse bloemen.

Wednesday BleepingComputer reported that more than 30 WordPress plugins "have been compromised with malicious code that allows unauthorized access to websites running them."

A malicious actor planted the backdoor code last year but only recently started pushing it to users via updates, generating spam pages and causing redirects, as per the instructions received from the command-and-control (C2) server. The compromise affects plugins with hundreds of thousands of active installations and was spotted by Austin Ginder, the founder of managed WordPress hosting provider Anchor Hosting, after receiving a tip about one add-on containing code that allowed third-party access.

Further investigation by Ginder revealed that a backdoor had been present in all plugins within the EssentialPlugin package since August 2025, after the project was acquired in a six-figure deal by a new owner.... "The injected code was sophisticated. It fetched spam links, redirects, and fake pages from a command-and-control server. It only showed the spam to Googlebot, making it invisible to site owners," explained Ginder.

"WordPress.org's v2.6.9.1 update neutralized the phone-home mechanism in the plugin," Ginder writes in a blog post. "But it did not touch wp-config.php. The SEO spam injection was still actively serving hidden content to Googlebot.

"And here is the wildest part. It resolved its C2 domain through an Ethereum smart contract, querying public blockchain RPC endpoints. Traditional domain takedowns would not work because the attacker could update the smart contract to point to a new domain at any time."


This has happened before. In 2017, a buyer using the alias "Daley Tias" purchased the Display Widgets plugin (200,000 installs) for $15,000 and injected payday loan spam. That buyer went on to compromise at least 9 plugins the same way.... The WordPress plugin marketplace has a trust problem... The Flippa listing for Essential Plugin was public. The buyer's background in SEO and gambling marketing was public. And yet the acquisition sailed through without any review from WordPress.org.

WordPress.org has no mechanism to flag or review plugin ownership transfers. There is no "change of control" notification to users. No additional code review triggered by a new committer. The Plugins Team responded quickly once the attack was discovered. But 8 months passed between the backdoor being planted and being caught.

Thanks to Slashdot reader axettone for sharing the news.

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Slashdot reader smazsyr writes: A new review says we've had fructose wrong for decades. The nine authors, led by Richard Johnson at the University of Colorado Anschutz, argue that fructose "is not just another calorie." It is a signal. It tells the liver to make fat and brace for a famine that never comes. That made sense for a bear fattening up on autumn berries. It makes less sense for a person drinking soda in March.

The review reframes the WHO's sugar guideline, argues ScienceBlog.com, as "less a recommendation about calories and more a warning about a signalling molecule we have been dosing ourselves with, several times a day, for most of a century."

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A series of digital 3D type works created in the style of the Japanese ceramic colour mixing technique, Nerikomi.

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A makeshift Manchester United defence did not even have to resort to hair pulls to keep out a goalshy Chelsea. The unfamiliar pairing of Ayden Heaven and Noussair Mazraoui grew into a tepid game after a shaky start, making the full-time boos inevitable. Stamford Bridge was an unhappy place again, the unrest in the stands growing as a fourth consecutive defeat in the Premier League approached, and the only time the home fans stopped pining for the old Chelsea was when Mason Mount came on to help United protect their 1-0 lead.

Think back to Porto in May 2021. Back then, long before anyone in west London had heard of BlueCo, it was Mount who created the winner when Chelsea became kings of Europe for the second time. Five years on, though, this is a club that cannot even be sure that they will be in the Champions League next season.

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The gunman, who killed six people in Kyiv before police shot him dead, was a Ukrainian citizen born in Moscow

Ukrainian investigators are examining whether a terrorist attack in Kyiv was directed by Moscow after a man shot dead six people on Saturday before he was killed by police.

The gunman, 58, opened fire on passersby before barricading himself in a supermarket and taking hostages. Detectives sealed off the area in the Holosiivskyi district and tried to negotiate with him. He refused and was killed after a 40-minute standoff.

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Tijdens de Global Progressive Mobilisation kwamen progressieve politieke leiders uit landen over de hele wereld bijeen. In Barcelona vierden leiders van socialistische en sociaaldemocratische partijen de progressieve beweging, die volgens hen aan zet is nu radicaal-rechts aan succes lijkt in te leveren. Maar dan moeten ze die kans wel pakken.

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Zit naar een Randy Feltface-show te kijken. Over de second banana, de acteur die de knappere lead acteur in een goed licht moet zetten. "Cheekbones. Scientology. Cunt." Hoppa! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=34JfTh8sgqk